programming
Our programming consists of outreach networks that include virtual and in-person activations of ARCHIVO, which allow for continuity, discoverability, and the ability to share the benefits of the digital archive as a resource and tool for the community interested in Latin American visual artists, Indigenous artists from the Latin American region, Latin-Caribbean artists, and those who identify as Latinx artists of the diaspora in Canada.
Partnerships
ARCHIVO held a partner relationship with The Coop HENHangouts program led by Hemispheric Encounters. The virtual gathering consisted of an artist talk by artists soJin Chun (Toronto) and Edrimael Delgado (Puerto Rico). The hangout allowed both artists to share their interdisciplinary experiences while developing community-engaging projects with the Global South and the Caribbean.
Workshops
The ARCHIVO Researcher/Archivist led various workshops to speak about how the archive can enhance student engagement with diasporic art and how this resource can facilitate student and scholarly research. Luz Sierra was an invited guest speaker at York University’s graduate course seminar “Museums and Galleries” as well as at OCAD University’s graduate studies course “Archive and Memory” and its undergraduate “Latin American Art” course.
Image courtesy of Sur Gallery, exhibition Declassified History: Archiving Latin America, 2019, curated by Tamara Toledo.
Public Speaking
ARCHIVO’s team Tamara Toledo and Luz Sierra were part of the Latin America Media Art Symposium (LAMAS) under aluCINE's Latin Film + Media Festivals in the panel discussion Ecologies: Spaces of Visibility with panelist Diana Sánchez and Laura Levin, moderated by Dot Tuer. During the presentation, ARCHIVO’s role was identified as a significant contribution to Latinx-Canadian visual art.
Image courtesy of the Latin America Media Art Symposium, aluCINE Latin Film + Media Festivals 2023, photograph by Magda Arturo.
(Sinara Rozo, Diana Sánchez, Luz Sierra, Tamara Toledo, Laura Levin, Dot Tuer and Nicole Cartier)
In 2025, researcher Luisa Cruz ministered guest lectures on ARCHIVO at York University’s "Art & Diaspora" Undergraduate class, as well as University of Toronto Mississauga's Exhibiting Diasporas Series as part of the Introduction to Diasporas and Transnational Studies course.
She also was an invited guest speaker at the Archives, Languages and Translations Spring Research Seminar, organized by York University's Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact and the Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact (May 2025).
ARCHIVO guest lecture by Luisa Cruz (pictured). University of Toronto Mississauga, March 17th, 2025. Courtesy of Bruno Véras